Lackawanna Diner 469 in-transit on NS

isaksenj · **Posted:** Tue Apr 10, 2012 1:45 am

The Erie Lackawanna Dining Car Preservation Society's former-DL&W Budd "Phoebe Snow" Dining Car #469 is currently en route from Collierville, TN to Scranton, PA where it will once again serve delicious meals on the Friendly Service Route. The car will be riding rear-end-only (with possibly one additional car carrying the FRED) on Norfolk Southern from Memphis, TN, via Chattanooga, Roanoke, and the Shenandoah Valley Line, bound for Slateford Junction, where it will be interchanged to the Delaware-Lackawanna for the final leg into Scranton.

ELDCPS is looking for photos of the car in transit to use on our website and in our publications. Please contact msteinberg@eldcps.org if you are able to get a photo of the car.

For tracing, the car is reporting as RPCX 469

Alexander D. Mitchell IV · **Posted:** Tue Apr 10, 2012 8:49 am

All-Points bulletin issued to numerous groups from Roanoke to central and northeastern Pa. Now, if I can just get someone in the northern Shenandoah Valley or around Shenandoah Junction......

The last-reported trip plan calls for the car to run from Sheffield, AL to Knoxville, TN on a 162, depart Knoxville on a 16T to Allentown, PA, and then H78 to Portland.

isaksenj · **Posted:** Tue Apr 10, 2012 10:59 am

Car arrived in Knoxville at 9AM this morning...

alcoguy1 · **Posted:** Tue Apr 10, 2012 11:42 am

Alexander D. Mitchell IV wrote:

Now, if I can just get someone in the northern Shenandoah Valley or around Shenandoah Junction......

Ill keep an eye out...

Mark Z. Yerkes · **Joined:** Mon Jan 02, 2012 8:47 pm **Posts:** 486

It'd be pretty sweet if the diesel that pick it up on the DL are the former EL Alco twins

Alexander D. Mitchell IV · **Posted:** Tue Apr 10, 2012 2:16 pm

Question: DL&W paint or stainless steel?

Steve Freer · **Joined:** Tue Nov 09, 2004 1:24 pm **Posts:** 380

What's in your wallet?

isaksenj · **Posted:** Tue Apr 10, 2012 2:32 pm

Sandy --

Right now 469 is more or less "undecorated" - plain stainless steel, as seen in this photo from prior to her move from Collierville:

http://eldcps.org/equipment/469/photos/ ... it_800.jpg

eldiner · **Joined:** Mon Aug 23, 2004 8:39 am **Posts:** 534

Diner 469 also briefly wore Amtrak colors when owned by Butterworth Tours. Here is a link to that previous RYPN thread: http://www.rypn.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=30161&hilit=butterworth+rock+island

isaksenj · **Posted:** Wed Apr 11, 2012 10:17 am

As of this morning, Diner 469 is still in Knoxville

eldiner · **Joined:** Mon Aug 23, 2004 8:39 am **Posts:** 534

469 left Knoxville today around 1pm on train 16T bound for Allentown, PA. Still looking for enroute photos. We have one so far from Sheffield, AL:

Thanks to Carl Ardrey for sharing

isaksenj · **Posted:** Thu Apr 12, 2012 8:45 am

Diner 469 arrived in Roanoke about 5AM this morning.

Bob Lyndall · **Posted:** Thu Apr 12, 2012 12:53 pm

Just departed Roanoke at 12:50PM - midtrain closer to the rear. Shown below just prior to running under US220 south of Troutville.

Alexander D. Mitchell IV · **Posted:** Thu Apr 12, 2012 1:24 pm

Bob Lyndall wrote:

Just departed Roanoke at 12:50PM - midtrain closer to the rear.

Sigh. I see the railroads have proven once again being incapable of reading "handle on rear of train" instructions anymore.

Dave Crosby · **Posted:** Thu Apr 12, 2012 2:19 pm

Ugh... Tell me about it. I just made a flurry of phone calls, we'll see if this gets sorted out. Reminds me of the time they humped a restored PRR caboose that was on its way to our NRHS convention in Scranton back in 2010.

Dave